Helps to resolve ambiguity surrounding files in symbolically linked directories, which are common on operating systems that use a symbolically linked temporary directory (OS X I'm looking at you).
Helps to resolve ambiguity surrounding files in symbolically linked directories, which are common on operating systems that use a symbolically linked temporary directory (OS X I'm looking at you).
the canonical form of file
, falling back to the absolute file.
Non-recursive children of the file.
the file and its descendent family tree (if it is a directory).